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Lutholi Junior School near Mthatha made headlines last week when a learner survived falling into a pit toilet.Image: Equality Education via Twitter
EASTERN CAPE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

R3.7m allocated to EC school after child falls into unfinished pit toilet

The Eastern Cape education department has given a Johannesburg-based contractor two weeks to report back to site and finish construction at a rundown school. DispatchLIVE reported last week that a six-year-old boy at Lutholi Junior School…

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Eskom pulled the plug just before the school holidays started. Image: Gallo Images/ IStock
ALFRED NZO MUNICIPALITY

Pupils in the dark, teachers prep at home as Eskom ‘punishes defaulters’

Eastern Cape teachers were forced to print exam papers at home and pupils wrote tests in cold, dark classrooms due to unpaid electricity bills. More than 10 schools in the Alfred Nzo municipality have been operating without power for…

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